Peninsula Tribes Develop Collaborative Approach to Wildlife Monitoring
Treaty tribes on the Olympic Peninsula will be placing more than 300 trail cameras on the...
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Tag: Port Gamble S’Klallam
Monitoring Port Gamble Bay Sediment to Protect Herring Embryos
Pacific herring populations in Port Gamble Bay have dropped dramatically in recent years, and the...
Read MorePort Gamble S’Klallam Tribe cleans up Point Julia, Port Gamble Bay
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe has spent 2014 focused on improving the health of Port Gamble Bay, especially Point Julia, where tribal members regularly gather to exercise their treaty rights. The tribe has been working...
Read MoreTribes partner in marine survival research
Treaty Indian tribes have invested millions of dollars in hatchery programs and habitat restoration, but poor marine survival continues to stand in the way of salmon recovery. Marine survival rates for many stocks of chinook,...
Read MoreMarine survival research focuses on juvenile salmon, preferred prey
Fisheries managers studying poor ocean survival of salmon are concentrating their research on juvenile fish and their preferred prey. Several tribes are collaborating on studies slated to begin in 2014 as part of the Salish Sea...
Read MoreTribes, National Park Monitor Fishers on Olympic Peninsula
Olympic Peninsula treaty tribes are helping monitor fishers that have been reintroduced to Olympic National Park. Starting this summer, and for the next several years, the Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble...
Read MorePort Gamble S’Klallam has Surprising Results in Nearshore Study
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe is finding more juvenile salmon in small bays than other nearshore environments, including large estuaries in Hood Canal and Admiralty Inlet. “We’re not seeing fish near the mouths of big river...
Read MoreSuquamish Tribe provides cedar bark harvest opportunity
With a small ax and carving knife, Port Gamble elder and master carver Gene Jones Sr. deftly removes a 1-foot by 3-foot section of bark from a felled cedar log. He shaves off a small section of the rough bark, revealing a...
Read MorePort Gamble S’Klallam conducts salmon fishing ceremony
For the first time in several generations, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe held a blessing ceremony for its fishermen this summer. “We wanted to recover the history behind the ceremony but also create an event that was...
Read MoreKitsap Sun: Port Gamble S’Klallam, Puget Sound Restoration Fund restoring oyster, kelp beds
The Kistap Sun reported recently that the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and Puget Sound Restoration Fund are working together to restore kelp and oyster beds in Port Gamble Bay. Shellfish are important to the tribe, both...
Read MoreHood Canal tribes receive funding from U.S. Navy for enhancement projects
The Kitsap Sun has reported that the U.S. Navy will pay $9 million to Hood Canal tribes as part of a mitigation agreement for natural resources impacted by the construction of the Navy’s explosives handling wharf at Naval...
Read MorePort Gamble S’Klallam transfers juvenile coho to Port Gamble Bay net pens
A quarter million juvenile coho salmon took a quarter-mile ride through a 4-inch pipe when the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe recently transferred the young fish from shore to the tribe’s floating net pens in Port Gamble Bay. The...
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